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19.5.50, cont. Cerne Valley N. of Charminster.

After lunch swept around Hill 420, including beech, hawthorn, oak, &c.; & also along sheltered ditch near river at foot of Chalk escarpment on return journey just SW. of Hill 420.  This = 2nd Sucker.  The larger insects put in killing bottle!

Cerne Valley, N. of Charminster 
In killing bottle!

Butterfly. ?tages: at foot of Chalk near river.

Bees. 
Andrena bucephala  ♂︎: swept on summit of Hill 420 - almost certainly off Hawthorn (in  flower). 
Andrena nitida  ♂︎ flying over bramble in same place.
Andrena minutula  ♀︎, swept along path in field near Charminster. 
Nomada Goodeniana  ♂︎ seen on Hill 420.

Sandflies. 
Dolerus aeneus? 2♀︎♀︎ on Hill 4.20 i.e. at 2!
Rhogogaster aucuperiae  ♀︎ on Hill 420, i.e. at 2!
Tenthredo cf. vuridis,     "   "   "        "  "
Nematus lucidus  ♂︎

Cryptine ick.  ♂︎ near Charminster
2 Coleoptera taken under bark of ash log on Hill 420 =


68.)

19.5.50 cont.  Cerne Valley

Taken in 1st sucker.

Diptera 3} see end of series!
Large Weavil } see end of series!
Cryptinids 7 = Hemiteles? sp.  2 small ♂︎♂︎, ant. 21 & 23.
Hemiteles? sp.  ♂︎, ant. 19.
H,? sp.  ♂︎, ant. 21.
H.? s.  ♂︎, ant. 22.
Phygadeuon sp.  very small dark ♀︎, ant. 19.
Ph.? sp.  large ♂︎, red abd., ant. 24.
Promethes sulcator  1♂︎, 1♀︎ ant. both 25.
P. cognatus  ♂︎, ant. 24.
P. pulchellus?  1♂︎, 3♀︎♀︎, ant. 22 (♂︎), 22, 22 & 23 (♀︎♀︎).
Thersilochus sp.  ♀︎, ant. 25.
Campoplegids 7 = Canidia 5-angulatus  ♀︎, long terebra, ant. 20.  New to British list!  J.F. Perkins agrees in lit. 9.11.50
Canidia sp.  2♀︎♀︎, ant. 18 & 19.
Omorga? sp.  2♂︎♂︎, ant. both 27.  1♀︎, ant. 28.
Angitia? sp.  ♂︎, ant. 30.
Bracon anthracinus √  ♀︎, ant. 20.
Apanteles sp.  ♂︎, white wings.
Ascogaster (quadridentatus Wesm. ♀︎ (?)), ant. 33.  Trans. to coll. 15.11.1950! A.W.S.
Perilitus cf. secalis Hal.  2 small black ♂︎♂︎, ant. 23 & bitten off;  & 1♀︎ ant. 22, red head & legs.
Blacus ruficornis  ♀︎, ant. 20.
Opius levis W.  ♂︎, ant. 23.
O. cf. pendulus Hal.  1 minute ♂︎, ant. 21, ca. 1mm in length only!
Pentapleura pumilio  1♂︎, ant. 25, reddish legs.